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You & I

Loop mode is out on all platforms: ffm.to/loopmodesingle

Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/6B9djwPwxTk

I made Loop mode 3 years ago in my bedroom in London. I found a cool synth loop on Garageband and used it to lay down all my thoughts. This is a song about overthinking and being stuck in your head. It took me 3 years to release it and I know some of you have been waiting that long for it, thank you.

Mixed by @a-charles-music
Pic by @ josscreative

LYRICS: 
My thoughts are on loop mode
Guess I'll just stop
Cause I'm way too out of focus on my way to the top
To the top (to the top to the top) to the top
It's not meant to be it's not effortless
I'm going with the flow no second-guessing myself
My back on the wall I trust the process
I'm growing like a flower trying to find a place on earth

On earth on earth
On earth on earth

I want to be perfect but I gotta let go
Cause emotions are imperfect that's how I keep you close
I'm here to reconcile the woman and the child
I'm here to lift you up with one foot on the ground
With one foot on the ground
One foot on the ground

I'm just trying to find my place on earth
I'm just trying to find my place on earth
On earth

Loop Mode

It's been 7 years since the first song for the album was written, the first in my life. 3 years since we started recording these songs. It's a long way to go. And complicated. It led me to where I am now. I am convinced that everything happens when it should. Now is the time when I became ready to present the pieces of my soul, made into music, to the whole world. 

5 songs are like 5 fragments from a personal diary: naive and overly romanticizing and dramatizing events. But that's how I am, that's how I feel. In my own world, everything was exactly as described in the songs. 

But these are only fragments. The full diary is an album of 12 songs that make up a complete story, called Worlds Apart, I'm sure it won't take so long to wait this time.

The opening track - Light - embodies a bright beginning in every sense. The first affection, the first song, the first guitar, the first step into a new life. It's still special to me, and in fact, I probably like it most of all these songs in terms of sound. When we started recording it, it turned out to be quite melancholic and unhurried, and as for me, it sounded cool, but I was prompted and also guessing myself, that it would be good to make it kind of more up-tempo, I wanted to find a balance, and I am very pleased with the way we made it.

As part of this EP, Circles is a sharp rewind of events forward. This is no longer "Now I finally see the light", but "You will only make me suffer, whether you want it or not." There was no doubt about how this song should sound: definitely more rock and expressive compared to the others.

New Chapter: "And after all this time and songs, it’s the first one about something real that you and me feel." It’s true that a lot of songs had already been written at the time of writing this one. The first reciprocity. At least for a while. I had thoughts that maybe a lot of repeatings in the song would seem boring to a listener, but I no longer think so about what it turned out, especially thanks to Ruzel's backing vocals, which really enlivened it.

In the process of keeping a diary, one page was torn out. This is You Make Me Feel (Higher), the third song I wrote. At one point, it began to seem not good enough to me, and I excluded it from tracklist of the future album. However, later, while recording this EP, I decided to give it a new life, changing it a little, and the missing link was found, becoming such a bonus track. Someone even liked it the most.

Affection is the track that has already become landmark. The last song on this EP and on the upcoming longplay. At the same time, it was the first one that we began to rehearse, record and play in public. Someone has already had enough of it, but not me, I still consider it one of the best songs I ever wrote. "I made everyone believe in a perfect explanation. Now I don’t know how to feel, cause it seems like it is real, but I have the same affection." Thus, we return to the same place from where we started, but with a new awareness: love, suffering - all for the sake of art.

It was decided to make an acoustic version of the song, different from the version on the future album, as in the case of the previous song - for a change. But not only for that. I really like how this melody is combined with a tambourine. And in general, I'm glad that at least one song became more or less minimalistic, because the rest are too full of sounds, one might say noisy. At least we got what we did, due to the first experience and the tendency of both musicians to complicate everything:) And it's funny that now, with more experience, I’m going to move in the direction of simplification.

Anyway, I'm very happy to finally share the music of my heart with you and hope it will resonate with someone!

Light

Rising Tide

....mkay

sorry for the quality, left my mic at home so recorded through my laptop

Mr Mackey

mr mackey

Slow Boat To China

Boyfriend Jeans

Forever

Chasing Dreams

Conceited

written by me
produced by me + Alan Charles Smith
mixed by Alan Charles Smith
mastered by John Webber at Air Studios, London

LYRICS
My dreams turn into nightmares
Every cell of my brain is screaming your name
Do you often think about me

Wherever you are
Wherever you are, you're so far
Wherever you are

Oh I didn't say I love you
Now I wish I did
You were a beautiful sunrise
You faded too quick
And I try not to be mad
You stop showing up with time
All I can say now is goodbye
Is goodbye
Oh oh
Is goodbye
Is goodbye

Alone in my bed
You're on a plane I'll find you again
I'm thinkin' no man ain't like you
And just for you the door stays open
I get carried away
You'll never know and I hate it

Wherever you are, you're so far
Wherever you are

Oh I didn't say I love you
Now I wish I did
You were a beautiful sunrise
You faded too quick
And I try not to be mad
You stop showing up with time
All I can say now is goodbye
Is goodbye
Oh oh
Is goodbye
Is goodbye
Is goodbye

Oh I do baby
I still think about you
Oh I do baby
I still think about you
Oh I do baby
I still think about you

Divianne - I didn’t say I love you

Cosmo

Brabus

written by me
produced by Alan Charles Smith
guitar/bass by Alan Charles Smith
drums by Craig Edmonds
mixed by Alan Charles Smith
mastered by Izzy Mcphee at Weird Jungle

LYRICS
I don't mind sitting in a corner
I let you shine uderneath the moonlight
Go make a wish I'll hold it tight
Longer than you realise
Call me when you win the fight

When the waves come crashing down
And hope is out of sight
If you get lost in the night come shine

Underneath the moonlight 
Come shine
Underneath the moonlight

You light up my world 'cause you're alive
You make it better every time
Go make a wish I'll hold it tight
Longer than you realise 
Call me when you win the fight

When the waves come crashing down
And hope is out of sight
If you get lost in the night come shine

Underneath the moonlight 
Come shine
Underneath the moonlight
Come shine
Underneath the moonlight

Underneath the moonlight
Underneath the moonlight
Underneath the moonlight
Underneath the moonlight

Underneath the Moonlight

divianne - 2 fools mix 2.0

Free Download

Yawn (prod. Shibo)

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/QpERhcwUUkI 

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Lyrics:
My thoughts are on loop mode
Guess I'll just stop
Cause i'm way too out of focus 
On my way to the top
to the top to the top

It's not meant to be
It's not effortless
I'm going with the flow no second guessing myself
My back on the wall I trust the process
I'm growing like a flower trying to find a place on earth

I want to be perfect but I gotta let go
Cause emotions are imperfect that's how I keep you close
I'm here to reconcile
The woman and the child
You're there to lift me up
With one foot on the ground
With one foot on the ground

I'm just trying to find my place on earth
I'm just trying to find my place on earth

Loop mode

loop mode (demo)

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Loop Mode

DIVIANNE

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